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  • I remember when I was younger, I didn’t know if I agreed or disagreed with the death penalty.

    My young brain was thinking “Well, if this guy killed someone, why SHOULDN’T he die?”

    But as I got older I realized that the justice system is nonexistant. It’s a myth. It doesn’t exist. We don’t have a justice system. We have a punishment system. And it doesn’t care who gets punished, just as long as some politician can say he killed X amount of “criminals”.

    But our legal system is so dysfunctional that we hardly ever get a “not guilty” plea. They’ll convince innocent people that they’re about to roll the dice. Plea not guilty, and lose? You’re looking at 60 years. But…plea no contest in a plea deal? You’re looking at 2-5 years. Most people take the deal, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

    So why would I trust THAT system to make a permanent decision to KILL them?

    Trump was already wrong about the central park 5. But if we’d have killed them back in the 80s when it happened, you can’t go back and undo it. They served time for something they didn’t do, and are the perfect example of what I’m talking about. We can’t give them back the time they spent wrongfully convicted, but at least they’re not dead.

    Not that I’m defending the system.













  • It saddens me that this is either meant to remind people of the way things were, or it teaches them a world they never knew.

    1995 me would have been excited to see what crazy stuff is on the 2025 internet. 2025 me realizes it’s just a digital version of a carnival scam. Hot singles in your area is just the ring toss game. Give them your money, and then you lose.

    The 90s were just factually a better time. Biggest controversy about our president at that time was that our president got blowjobs.